Results and statistics for the VFL/AFL season of 1960. VFL/AFL is the term used to refer to the competition established in 1897, which was originally known as the Victorian Football League. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...

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Ladder

All teams played 18 games during the home and away season, for a total of 108. An additional 4 games were played during the finals series.

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Night Series Competition

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Final: South Melbourne 10.12 (70) defeated Hawthorn 8.11 (59) Sydney Swans logo The Sydney Swans are an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney. ... The Hawthorn Hawks known formally as the Tassie Hawks from 07 onwards, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). ...

First Semi-Final

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Second Semi-Final

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Preliminary Final

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Grand Final

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Grand Final Teams

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Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to John Schultz of Footscray with 20 votes.
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to North Melbourne

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Leading Goalkicker

• Ron Evans of Essendon 67 goals.

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Facts

• Hawthorn celebrated their first win ever at Victoria Park, Melbourne - Collingwood's home ground - when Hawthorn full forward John Peck marked on the siren and kicked the winning goal. Hawthorn defeated Collingwood 7.16 (58) to 7.15 (57).

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Match attendance

Total attendance for the finals series was 323,763 people. Attendance at the Grand Final was 97,457 people.

References

• Stephen Rodgers: Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897-1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0 670 90526 7.